Hollyoaks winter trailer bombshells - including Leela heartbreak and Cleo's escape

Hollyoaks person confirmed what viewers tin expect this Winter successful the Channel 4 soap and there''s plentifulness of play and twists connected the mode for the Chester colony residents

Hollyoaks fans are successful for a dainty arsenic the Channel 4 soap's Winter trailer promises plentifulness of festive drama. Santa Jez, played by Jeremy Sheffield, brings vacation cheer to the Chester village, portion Tony Hutchinson, portrayed by Nick Pickard, hosts a lavish Christmas repast astatine The Dog.

Donny Clark, played by Louis Emerick, leads the toast and the McQueens bargain the amusement with their dazzling festive attire. But the vacation tone can't disguise the sinister events unfolding successful Hollyoaks village.

An flight program is hatched, friendships crook sour, and a shocking confession is connected the cards this Christmas. Cleo McQueen, played by Nadine Mulkerrin, has been held captive successful a level for implicit a twelvemonth by her abuser Abe Fielding, played by Tyler Conti.

He has manipulated her into believing she caused his parent Marie Fielding's death, played by Rita Simons, and that hiding is her lone information - erstwhile helium is the existent danger. After uncovering his lies, she devises a program to escape.

Using transgression books fixed to her by Abe, she convinces him she's dying and helium agrees to wed her the nighttime earlier successful the folly. The trailer ends with Mercedes McQueen, played by Jennifer Metcalfe, demanding the constabulary apprehension Abe, reports the Liverpool Echo. But volition Cleo's program succeed?

After sending her household to the McQueens, suspecting them of believing she killed her hubby Ethan Williams, Sienna Blake (Anna Passey) is relieved to person the backing of her estranged grandma Martha Blake (Sherrie Hewson), who returns to the village. However, Martha has a shocking concealed - she confesses to Sienna that she was the 1 who murdered Ethan.

Meanwhile, colony heartthrob Freddie Roscoe (Charlie Clapham) wins implicit Mercedes, who reveals her susceptible broadside to him arsenic she undergoes chemotherapy. The brace program a romanticist getaway, overmuch to the delight of her McQueen household and parent Myra McQueen (Nicole Barber-Lane).

But there's a hitch - he's joined to Grace Black (Tamara Wall), who won't instrumentality this lying down. What was erstwhile a root of enactment for Mercedes during her attraction present becomes her worst nightmare.

As if that wasn't enough, the trailer besides hints astatine an ongoing romance with his brother's girlfriend, Vicky Grant (Anya Lawrence). Additionally, Mercedes' Christening for the Marias is abruptly disrupted by a distraught Joel Dexter (Rory Douglas-Speed), who suspects his woman Leela (Kirsty-Leigh Porter) of infidelity and questions the paternity of their daughter, Clara.

An affectional rollercoaster unravels onscreen arsenic she wipes distant tears, leaving viewers anxiously questioning what secrets are tormenting Leela and the events of the elusive "missing year". Meanwhile, a fraught ambiance surrounds The Osbornes arsenic they brace Frankie (Isabelle Smith) for the harrowing sibling intersexual maltreatment proceedings scheduled for January.

With Nancy (portrayed by Jessica Fox) struggling to support her caput supra h2o alone, the hostility escalates. In an unexpected hideaway, Darren Osborne (played by Ashley Taylor Dawson) is holed up successful Charlie's uni accommodation successful London, wherever he's jolted by witnessing his woman Nancy's televised plea, which ends shockingly with her on-screen collapse—spun by the overwhelming unit of holding their world together. Is this catastrophe capable to spur Darren into action?

As the countdown to New Year begins, Tony and Diane Hutchinson (characters brought to beingness by Nick Pickard and Alex Fletcher) are plagued by anxiousness erstwhile they observe their son, Ro Hutchinson (Ava Webster), incapacitated by alcohol. Diane is cloaked successful interest astir losing Tony who remains unaware of Diane's truth. Can she buffer Ro without sacrificing what's near of their fractured household unit?

And arsenic the saying goes, your archetypal emotion ne'er genuinely leaves you; Dillon Ray (Nathanial Dass) is seemingly holding onto anticipation for a romanticist reunion arsenic the New Year looms. But the captious question hangs successful the air: Is Lucas Hay (Oscar Curtis) acceptable to pardon past deceptions and carve a way for their future?

Hollyoaks airs Monday to Wednesday connected E4 astatine 7pm and archetypal look episodes tin beryllium streamed Channel 4 from 7am